Chromos
by Felipe Alfau | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1564782042 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 1564782042 Global Overview for this book
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Chromos is one of the true masterpieces of post-World War II fiction. Written in the 1940s but left unpublished until 1990, it anticipated the fictional inventiveness of the writers who were to come along - Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Sorrentino, and Gaddis. Chromos is the American immigration novel par excellence. Its opening line is: "The moment one learns English, complications set in." Or, as the novel illustrates, the moment one comes to America, the complications set in. The cast of characters in this book are immigrants from Spain who have one leg in Spanish culture and the other in the confusing, warped, unfriendly New World of New York City, attempting to meld two worlds that just won't fit together. Wildly comic, Chromos is also strangely apocalyptic, moving towards point zero and utter darkness. (Trade PB)
Released on Sunday, June 20, 2004 at UAF Campus in Fairbanks, Alaska USA.
Lower parking lot across from the gym - left in the shuttle bus building in the magazine/pamphlet rack. =)
Lower parking lot across from the gym - left in the shuttle bus building in the magazine/pamphlet rack. =)
I just received it in the mail today from St. Louis. I got it from Silver Arch Books. I haven't read it yet, but I read Alfau's "Locos: A Comedy of Gestures" and loved it. So what could I do other than read "Chromos?" After I read it, I'll release it back into the city. I hope it makes its way to Spain. I heard that many of them have never even heard of Felipe Alfau.
I finished reading, "Chromos" and was disappointed. I enjoyed Alfau's first novel, "Locos: A Comedy of Gestures" much better. Anyway, I sent it on its way. I left it in the ER waiting room at a hospital in Fletcher, NC. Hopefully, whoever took it will join this program.